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2016 Sports Year End Review: New Records and Standards Established
By John Chen 2016 has been a really intriguing and exciting year in sports. LeBron James finally won the NBA Title for the “land,” ending a 52-year pro sports championship drought for the city of...
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Walking Is Wonderful
By Cinder Ernst I’ve been a personal fitness trainer for almost 30 years—wow! Most of those years have been spent helping plus size reluctant exercisers become Easy Fitness movers and shakers. The...
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LGBT Sports 2017
By John Chen Now that 2016 is over, we look forward to a new year filled with pitching, catching, pounding, butt patting, fist bumping, swinging, sweating, stroking, panting … wait, what was I writing...
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Overcoming Problems When Starting a Walking for Fitness Program
By Cinder Ernst In our last column, we gave you the Easy Fitness system for starting a walking program (http://sfbaytimes.com/walking-is-wonderful/). The basic premise is to find your comfortable...
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Bare Chests, Bikinis, Bulges, Beers, Oh My …
By John Chen Have you ever eaten Jell-O shots off a hot jock’s muscular bare chest or curvaceous cleavage? Imagine a sexy athlete laid out in front of you bare skinned, with beads of perspiration...
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Ease for Your Knees
By Cinder Ernst This is the forth article in the “Walking Is Wonderful” series. We began with helping you to get started. Then we addressed foot pain and how to choose good walking shoes. In the last...
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March Madness: How to Fill Out a Winning Bracket
By John Chen Laying poolside—diligently turning golden brown in sunny 95-degree Palm Springs and surrounded by beautiful, playful, social naked men of all shapes and sizes—I was in paradise, although...
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Personal Training – Is It for You?
By Cinder Ernst I’ve enjoyed being a personal fitness trainer for almost 30 years, whoa! When I pioneered the one-on-one training program at the SF Central YMCA, there was not even a personal trainer...
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Choosing Your Personal Trainer
By Cinder Ernst This is the second article in our 3-part series about personal fitness training. In the first installment, we shared tips on how to determine if traditional personal training is right...
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How to Be Your Own Personal Trainer
By Cinder Ernst This is the third article in the personal training series. The first two offered information to help you decide if personal training is right for you, and how to be successful at...
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How to Be Your Own Personal Trainer, Part 2
By Cinder Ernst Easy Fitness strategies and systems make exercise easy to do. If exercising were easy for you to do, then you wouldn’t need a personal trainer, right? In the previous Easy Fitness...
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Exercising Consistently and Without Struggle
By Cinder Ernst Can you imagine exercising consistently and without struggle? In the last few columns we’ve been looking at you being your own personal trainer. (That is the crux of my book, Easy...
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Comfort and Confidence
By Cinder Ernst Adequate physical strength is the foundation to achieving your goals and dreams with comfort and confidence! To fulfill your desires with more ease, you might want to implement a simple...
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Wishing for a Flat Stomach?
By Cinder Ernst We’ve all seen commercials selling the idea that you can do enough crunches on a magic contraption to make your belly disappear. The truth is that you can’t spot reduce. If you could...
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The #1 Best Ab Exercise
By Cinder Ernst This is the second article on core strengthening. Your core is made up of muscles that support your mid-section. These muscles must be strong and flexible to give you pain-free mobility...
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Crunch the Crunch
By Cinder Ernst This is the third article in a series about strengthening your core. So far, we’ve discussed core anatomy, we’ve discovered that you can’t spot reduce, and that the pelvic tilt is the...
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Kick Balls Like Bruce Lee
By John Chen– Picture it: 1978. The home team was down three runs in the bottom of the final inning with two outs. But, the bases were juiced, and before there was a “Karate Kid,” Kung Fu Kid—Bruce...
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Posture Perfect
By Cinder Ernst– Your best-bet posture depends upon the alignment of your spine, from your tail bone to the base of your head. When mom used to say, “Sit up straight (and eat your vegetables),” she was...
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Good Posture Hacks
By Cinder Ernst– At Easy Fitness, we always want to give you a clear view on how your body works and the simplest way to make improvements. In the last column, we looked at how to improve your posture...
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Pain in the Neck
By Cinder Ernst– In the last several columns, we have looked at upper body posture and how to improve yours. As always, the exercises and coaching we offer at Easy Fitness are simple, clear and easy to...
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